Deirdre of the Sorrows

DEIRDRE OF THE SORROWS ACT I SCENE: Lavarcham's House on Slieve Fuadh. There is a door to inner room on the left, and a door to open air on the right. Window at back, & a frame with a half-finished piece of tapestry. There are also a large press and heavy oak chest near the back wall. ^The place is neat and clean but bare. Lavarcham, woman of fifty, is working at tapestry frame. (Old woman comes in from left) OLD WOMAN She hasn't come yet is it, and it falling to the night? LAVARCHAM Shehasnot. (concealing her anxiety) It's dark with the clouds are coming from the West and South, but it isn't later than the common. OLD WOMAN It's later surely, and I hear tell the Sons of Usna, « Naisiand his brothers, are above chasing hares for two days or three, and the same a while since when the moon was full. LAVARCHAM (more anxiously) The gods send they don't set eyes onher; (withasign of helplessness) yet if they doit-self, it wasn't my wish brought them or could send them away, b

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